Effects of maximum performance instructions on the sentence completion test of ego development

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 79-89

  Blumentritt, Tracie ^a,c   Novy, Diane M ^b   Gaa, John P ^a   Liberman, Dov ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGO; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EGO PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0029937164     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327752jpa6701_6     Document Type: Article

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